-The clock read 9:00pm.
-I turned to my side and fell asleep…..
Standing next to the doorway, I smelt the nasty smell of pure alcohol running into my lungs making me get high. I heard a voice of a woman crying for help. I couldn’t open my eyes good cause I felt my heart pounding really fast. Every time I tried to inhale, the air wasn’t put into my lungs. I couldn’t get a good look at the sign above me because it was a bit rotten. Where was I?! It looks like a basement of a factory. How did I get here?! All I remember was being in my room drawing a picture of my cat & singing “Ridin Solo” by Jason Derulo. I started to walk around to see if there was any exits close by. As I was walking slowly, my stomach started to hurt badly. I was feeling my stomach tried to talk to me. As I turned the corner to a stairway leading to a door, I heard the voice again of the woman but now it started to sound like a little girl...Where was it coming from? Is it coming from the door or I’m hearing things?! Please Lord help me!!

I started to walk really fast, I felt as if I was being watch. I did a quick 360° to see if I could spot who was staring at me…But sadly I didn’t see anybody. All of sudden I heard a sound coming from a door not so far away from me. There were three doors in front of me so I went one by one trying to open it but I got no luck because they were all lock. Urghhh!! I yelled really loud. Then I heard an echo after I said it again. The day looked like it was going really fast but I couldn’t seem to find any other exits around. Just remembering how long I was sleeping made me wonder how long I was in this place. Who I am?! Where do I live?! How do I look?! As more questions started to fill my head, I started to look around to see if I could get any reflection or something to see how I look. It was type blur when I found a broken mirror near the wall of a hallway leading to near where. When I turn around cause I felt something touch me, It was a hand of somebody Oooh how fast a jump up. What the heck is a hand doing here without its body?!!

As I was checking the hand, I started to see more body parts as I stared to the front of the endless hallway. Could this be a trap or something?! Or can it be this person was stuck here as well and was trying to get out, like me?! Ohh how freak I was getting being in this place. A chill when up my spine as I stand wondering how I was going to get out. Out of nowhere I heard a big BANG on the floor. It scared me to death so I hide behind a part of wood which was about the same height as. When I took a peek to see where it came from. I saw that the endless wall was open and three guys came out. They were speaking in this language that I understood perfectly. They were speaking French. One guy that looked the oldest was yelling at one of the guys behind him that looked the youngest and he said “Nous devons trouver la jeune fille maintenant! Avant qu'elle essaie de s'en sortir et là, le patron va couper la tête hors comme il le faisait avec le reste de l'équipe” Which means “We have to find the girl now!! Before she try to get away and then the boss will cut our heads off like he did with the rest of the guys”.

Ohh noo!! What!! They are trying to find me!! But why am I here?! I have to hide until they leave so they won’t catch me, I thought to myself. They separated looking around as I tried to walk quietly to the end of one of the shelves that was half hanging off the wall. So I kept my eyes opened, I heard a noise that came from behind me. Please not be them; please not be them, as I turned around. There stand a young girl staring at me with tears in her eyes. I made signal so she could come to me but all she did was nod her head to say no. I whispered quietly and ask what was wrong and she said “They are going to kill me next & then they are going to go after you once they finish with me”. I felt my legs go numb. This can’t be serious, right?! Why was I going to get killed for?! I aint never do harm to nobody. I guess the girl read my face because she pointed to a sign that read “All girls found between the ages of 8-18 must died because of some disease going around killing children’s”.

Tears started to form in my eyes: why is this happening?! All I did was try to behave. Now I’m caught up in some craziness and I didn’t even started to live my life yet. I started to feel heated because I was starting to get mad but the same time I was getting dizzy. I need to get water or something so I won’t pass out. I wasn’t able to stand up any more so I sat down on the floor. When I turn around to see if I can get some answer from the girl, she was gone. Where did she go?! I didn’t get her name, so I couldn’t call for her, even though the guys are around looking for me and her. Out of nowhere, I felt a hand cover me nose and in a split second I was knock out. Moments later, well I guess hours later I think. I felt like I slept long. I was awoken by voices of men. Ohh noo! I thought, they caught me, now it’s my time to die. But to my surprise when I look towards the doorway there was the girl standing and smiling at me. I wasn’t able to move to wave at her because my feet and hands were tied up tightly. Was this set up or she is going to help me escape from here?!

Sitting on the hard floor, I started to look around to see if there was something sharp on the floor to see if I can cut the rope of my feet than my hands. As I glared at the floor on the farer end, I noticed something odd on the floor. I was my book bag from school. What was it doing here?! Could they kidnap me from my home as I was leaving to school?! But this is impossible; I remember being home singing and stuff in my room. I’m getting too confused. How can I be here?! I started to cough and cough badly that it got loud. One of the guys noticed I was awake, so they came towards me. They had a folder in their hands. It said the name of chantel M. Lopez on it. Who could that be?! I said in my head as he got a sit and sat in front of me. The guy looked like between his early 20’s. His light skin complextion shown, he didn’t like to be in the sun. The room was a bit dark in some places.

As I continued to look at him so I could have idea of how he looks, so when I get out I could ID him to the police. He started to talk to me in French. He started out by saying hi, how you doing?! Sorry we got you like this but you were trying to run away from us and we didn’t want that to happen again. I sat and look at the guy face with confusion. What he was talking about again?! I ask the guy in French what he meant and he said : you are one of us, the survivors of the war that happen two months ago that wipe away all of France and Paris. Me about to laugh, I ask the guy again are you sure that was me because I don’t remember. The guy looking at me showed me pictures of me being in the war and helping them killed other guys in the colored green. “This must be a mistake”!!! I cried aloud. I am a young 16 year old girl who lives with her parents in a Madison upstate New York. The guys laughing said “Vous devez avoir rêve cette nuit kas car je n'ai pas de Madison ET je Sui’s ton père stupide “which means: You must have dream that last night because I don’t have a Madison and I am your father stupid.

Now me feeling sick to my stomach when I heard those words come out his mouth. I wanted to vomit so badly. This not true at all,” somebody is blackmailing me” I said. You just are trying to convince me so I won’t run away. He laughed and walk away to the little girl and this time in English. He said “go tell her who she is before I have to hurt you again”. The little girl came over to me and smile. Said she quietly, you are his child, your mom died when you was around 12 and I am your little sister Amanda. We are part of the reason that the world happen two months ago. Father didn’t want us to get a shot for the diseases spreading around so he took and we had to go fight in the world. The reason why you don’t remember Is because you got hit in your head with the gun and it knock you for 3 weeks. Dad wasn’t happen with it because he had me watch you instead of going doing business with him outside. I know it’s hard to believe but you have to now. We have to get ready and go out to fight before they attack us again.

With those words said, I felt my head go into shock and I started to shake badly losing my balance I went to the side. I thought to myself now I really have to die because this is not me. I am not this girl they want me to be or was before. My name is not chantel. It must be another name. I am 16 years old. I have parents and I don’t have siblings. I am the only child. I am a normal teenager that likes to get into trouble but doesn’t want violence in her life. Or could it be this is the really me?! What if I did suffer a head injury? But why can’t I seem to remember?! Why isn’t that I remember the song I was singing and the picture that I was drawing?! Why I was living somebody else’s life meanwhile my body was recovering?!

This is not impossible!! I yelled at them: “y vous les gars sont menteurs ! Je suis un teenager vous gars kidnapper et maintenant vous voulez les gars pour me transformer en votre esclave de se battre! ! “Which you guys are liars!!! I am a teenager you guys kidnap and now you guys want to turn me into your slave to fight!! After I was done, one of the guys came over and hit me with their gun in my head. With that I went into shock and pass out. Many things ran into my head: Was I supposed to die?! Why was I being kept there?! Who were those people?! I was able to think no more. I felt like it was my time to go now. What was left in life didn’t help me get to the door where I was supposed to go through. I started to hear noise again but this time. When I woke up, I saw I was in my bed with the music blasting. I see that it was making the noise I was hearing as I was knockout. I saw the picture of my cat in front of me. I noticed that when I look at my clock it said it was 3:00 am. That means, what I went through was no other then a dream that I normally had. I was back to the girl I was Marie A. Luis again. Now I know who I am.